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        I don’t get particularly angry at shoplifters, but as someone who’s hours were cut multiple times due to high levels of shrink in the past, it absolutely effects the employees

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          No matter what the real reason is, no matter what company you work for, they’re always going to blame cuts on customers or workers. Never has anyone said “we’re laying off your whole department because the CEO needs their $xx million per year. Because the shareholders said so.”

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        Yeah it does. You rely entirely on the average person not being an absolute dick to get away with your supposedly moral ideal.

        The moment more than like 25 percent of people think shoplifting is a good idea is the moment we can’t buy anything except from Amazon or the Walmart app and all grocery stores become delivery centers.

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        It would if the corp deems the site a write off and shutters it, creating a food desert.

        Downvotes from people who don’t understand what a food desert is.

        Fyi this can also occur with many other goods

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    Credit to @cerement for uploading the image

    Image description

    [Image description: A graph comparing the relative costs of different types of theft represented as area of a rectangle, with categories and dollar amounts in text:

    Wage Theft (when employers steal from employees)
    Minimum wage violations $23.20 billion
    Overtime violations $8.80 billion
    Rest Break violations $4.0 billion
    Off-the-clock violations $3.20 billion
    
    Other types of theft
    Larceny $5.30 billion
    Burglary $4.10 billion
    Auto Theft $3.80 billion
    Robbery $0.34 billion
    
    * all $ amounts are per year
    ** all data is for the U.S.
    

    ]

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      Careful, that’s a hot take these days. People online will bend over backwards defending thieves and projecting motivations on to them. It’s also one of the only instances where victim blaming is absolutely fine. “OH, you didn’t have a four inch steel drop box with time delay locks on your porch? You deserved to have your package stolen.”

  • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netOPM
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    Seems like the discussion started early in this post, usually that results in more comments. Please keep the rules in the sidebar in your mind before you comment. I would like to point a some that might be relevant:

    • be constructive & empathic
    • do not derail discussions with your concerns about morality or ethics

    You can always use the pinned post Why a(nother) shoplifting community to talk about why you think stealing is wrong.